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In 2008, Young became the William Livingston Chair of Poetry of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin.[2]

His most recent books are Bender: New and Selected Poems,[3]Fall Higher[4] and The Art of Recklessness.

In an interview,[5] Young said his poems are about misunderstanding and that tying meaning too closely with understanding is not the intent of his poetry. He finds the process of creation to be more important than the work itself: his poems are more demonstrations than explanations. He also finds that using mangled quotes from technical journals, as he experimented with in First Course in Turbulence, allows for a kind of collage in which tones confront each other. Citing Breton as an influence, Young finds Surrealism useful in understanding the imagination and removing the boundaries between real and unreal.